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Watercooling a Radeon HD 3870 X2 the Sapphire way

3 March 2008, 10:35

Sapphire slaps a waterblock on the two-GPU Radeon HD 3870 X2 and cools it with a self-contained unit.

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VIA Pico-ITX - not quite the perfect form-factor

29 February 2008, 23:21

HEXUS gives you the lowdown on VIA's tiny, tiny Pico-ITX motherboard. Is small really beautiful?

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Cooler Master COSMOS S

22 February 2008, 14:42

Cooler Master expands the COSMOS series with a new gaming variant of the popular chassis launch at CeBIT last year. So does the extreme edition bring in better performance and ...

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ZOTAC (NVIDIA) GeForce 9600 GT AMP! Edition: the new mid-range contender

21 February 2008, 14:01

NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GT is set to give ATI's Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 a bloody good fight in the sub-£150 market.

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Inno3D iChiLL GeForce 8800 GT Accelero X1. Great cooler but...

18 February 2008, 06:00

Inno3D slaps an Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 heatsink on a G92 and raises clocks a-plenty

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The best graphics card for £50?

14 February 2008, 03:57

Does the Radeon HD 3650 cut the £50 mustard. We tell you whether it's worth buying a retail card from either Sapphire or HIS.

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MSI vs. ZOTAC: shootout at the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 Corral

5 February 2008, 08:22

Got £200 to spend on a graphics-card upgrade? You need to read this.

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Packard Bell EasyNote XS20 sub-1kg notebook

1 February 2008, 08:37

Packard Bell takes VIA's reference NanoBook design and retails a sub-1kg notebook for £350. Any good?

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HIS Radeon HD 3870 X2 1024 - retail dual-GPU cards are go

31 January 2008, 08:42

HIS unleashes a retail Radeon HD 3870 X2 into the wild. GeForce 8800 Ultra-beater?

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ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 - getting back in the game

28 January 2008, 10:41

ATI has plans to re-take the crown of fastest graphics-card on the market. That plan involves stitching two Radeon HD 3870s together on to one PCB. Will it work?

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Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 ATOMIC: the best RV670 yet

25 January 2008, 08:53

Sapphire takes the reference design, throws it out and starts again.

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CoolerMaster's Cosmos chassis now under £100 AND under the lights!

9 January 2008, 09:59

Winning a HEXUS.eXtreme Recommended award 'straight out of the gate', back in July, was pretty impressive. The latest price drop makes the Cosmos more attractive than ever - so here's ...

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ZOTAC GeForce 8800 GT 512 AMP! Edition

17 December 2007, 08:57

The fastest GeForce 8800 GT to go through the labs, but is it worth £200? We tell you.

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AMD Phenom 9900, and the Spider Platform

7 December 2007, 08:07

The AMD Phenom 9900 Spider platform looks fantastic on paper. But does reality reinforce or negate that opinion?

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SilverStone Temjin TJ-10 PC system case

5 December 2007, 11:06

We expected to see the SilverStone Temjin TJ-10 at CeBIT 2007 back in March but the case wasn't there. Fast forward and it's finally arrived. So was it worth the ...

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Got £50 to spend on a CPU? Read this.

4 December 2007, 00:24

We take a look at two budget processors from Intel and AMD, overclock them significantly, and tell you which one to buy if you only have £50 to spend.

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Inno3D GeForce 8800 GT 512MiB Overclock: the best one yet?

30 November 2007, 09:56

Inno3D launches a heavily-overclocked GeForce 8800 GT 512MiB card. Is overall package enough to lure your credit card into a spending frenzy this holiday season? We tell you.

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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770: is there a need?

28 November 2007, 06:57

Intel paper-launches a processor that's not really needed, is it?

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When quad-cores collide: AMD Phenom 9600 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

19 November 2007, 11:31

AMD rolls out its quad-core Phenom processor and new 7-series chipset to do battle with Intel's year-old Core 2 Quad. Who wins?

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AMD Radeon HD 3870: the new midrange DX10 king?

15 November 2007, 05:00

November is a make-or-break month for AMD. The Radeon HD 3800 family is the first three products that it hopes will revive its flagging fortune. Well, though priced at only ...

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GeCube HD2600XT X2 DDR2 1024MiB - GEMINI 3

14 November 2007, 08:29

What do you do when the GPU manufacturer on which you base your cards upon procrastinates in filling a huge gap in the line-up? We're talking about GeCube's plight with ...

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Gigabyte 3DAurora 570 system chassis

12 November 2007, 09:49

Gigabyte's 3DAurora 570 case has about 10 per cent more space inside than the first 3DAurora chassis and the front's been tweaked a bit, too. But what else does it ...

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Cooler Master CM 690 PC chassis: the new budget king?

6 November 2007, 09:00

With a mix of steel and plastic (and weighing in at 9.8kg), the Cooler Master CM 690 is certainly built to a budget and that's reflected in the £50 price-tag, ...

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Tuniq 3 PC system case

1 November 2007, 09:19

One small division of Sunbeam Tech has seen its popularity rise through the proven Tuniq 120 CPU cooler. Now Tuniq wants to expand its UK range with the introduction of ...

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Antec Sonata III PC system case

30 October 2007, 08:39

The MkIII version of Antec's highly-popular Sonata series PC case is now on sale. But has the company continued to improve the chassis or is the third incarnation just more ...

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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650: it's clobberin' time!

29 October 2007, 10:12

Intel stretches its desktop performance lead via the launch of the 45nm-based Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650. You will want one.

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Can EQS's RS690IKM-AB6S best VIA's ITX-sized motherboards?

25 October 2007, 13:11

The EQS RS690IKM-AB6S motherboard packs a lot of punch into a tiny ITX-sized package but does it offer enough to stand out in a market space dominated by VIA?

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After nearly 15 years of producing high-quality, beautifully-finished, aluminium system cases, Lian-Li has the sort of fanatical following that money can’t buy. We're checking out the company's latest range, starting ...

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ASUS P5E3 Deluxe - fully-loaded and ready to fly

19 October 2007, 14:25

The race to produce the most feature-rich, fastest LGA775 chipset has lead to Intel releasing the X38. ASUS was only too happy to oblige with a retail example in the ...

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Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT Dual

12 October 2007, 07:29

Sapphire pulls out a dual-GPU Radeon HD 2600 XT out of the technical hat. We tell you if it's any good.

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Radeon HD 2600 XT shootout - GeCube v Sapphire

10 October 2007, 09:02

Two special-edition Radeon HD 2600 XTs go head-to-head in our shootout. Sapphire's silence against GeCube's cooling. Which one is better?

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HIS Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MiB Limited Edition

5 October 2007, 08:54

There's a new GPU in town, and its job is to pistol-whip the GeForce 8800 GTS 320 in to submission.

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Intel X38 and Foxconn X38A

3 October 2007, 08:58

Can Intel's X38 chipset offer enough to tempt users away from highly-popular motherboards based on the P35 and nForce 680i SLi chipsets? We're taking a look at an early sample ...

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